Photo Of The Day

here and here

Dutch cyclists braving the snow.

braving? hardly, to them snow is like heavy rain to us.

Their trips are also, on average, very short.

Oi, no arguing in this thread, edsquabble.

RIDING ON THE RAILS: Passengers rode on the outside of a crowded train in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday during a minibus-driver strike. Operators and drivers were on strike over alleged police corruption. They claim to have paid millions in bribes yearly. (Simon Maina/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Central line at Bethnal Green?

^^^^ jim carey before he was famous ?

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A street vendor tries to keep people from stealing her goods.
Really intense.

That is incredibly harrowing.

So may i just post a very calming manitee to level the feel.

That is incredibly harrowing.

So may i just post a very calming manitee to level the feel.

Oh, yeah! I'm loving the manitee action! That is such a relaxing pic.
More manitees please.
Perhaps the occasional dugong would be nice, too.

those last two pictures deserve the famous

" oh the huge manatee "

This is absolutely fake... the shadows...?

I think tilt shifting photos mess with the shadows a little?

those last two pictures deserve the famous

" oh the huge manatee "

Quote of the day.
Well done, sir.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A street vendor tries to keep people from stealing her goods.
Really intense.

This was the Metro-comic this morning

More here http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/faces_of_haiti.html

Thought I'd pull the pic thing away from the bleak.
Here's one of my favourite blokes, in front of one of my favourite paintings, depicting one of my favourite places in the world, The Yorkshire Wolds.
Hat's off to you, Mr Hockney.

Incidentally, he lives on the same street as my parents.
He painted this picture there.
I took a walk past his house one time, and he happened to be coming out of his house.
I walked over and babbled at him.
He took it pretty well.

A friend of mine does a lot of work for MSF and has got a piece on Haiti on his website, if you're interested it's here http://www.pepbonet.com/haiti/haiti01.html

A friend of mine does a lot of work for MSF and has got a piece on Haiti on his website, if you're interested it's here http://www.pepbonet.com/haiti/haiti01.html

Nice website, the HIV in Hondoras pics are really good.

buns not guns

The Forced Identity one came second at the World Press award for portrait stories.

Cool, some of those are really good. I've always wondered how people get into work with NGO's, although i know the answer is always to give something for nothing first. Never gonna pay the rent doing that though :(

Winning the Eugene W Smith Grant really helped him, it set him up to travel for another year and Kodak young photographer of the year opened a load of doors as well, this guy has been extremely lucky on a few occasions, but he's definately not taken the easy route. Did fashion shoots in the beginning to pay the bills and part time bar work. He went out travelling to take photos and built his portfolio from just that.